All our dreams can come through if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney. Let’s get your ears to smell what happened to Prikkle Academy recently with a little personal story as related by our Founder, Fasoranti Damilola; “So, the early hours of May 25,...

Do you believe in the limitless power of people? Do you see the world as filled with brilliants gifts, huge talents, special skills and resourceful communities? Do you feel that ‘ordinary’ people that you pass by every day can do creative, innovative, ‘awe-mazing’ and...

We all missed it. We have waited all along for its comeback. Now, it finally returned and it has come to stay – PrikkleAcademy Innovative Classrooms. Our team has been interfacing with the community youths more towards the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017. We are...

Dreams come true. Creativity sparkles. Communities Innovate. Youth Inspires. Dreams wear the foot of the fastest animals; it goes to the stadium and wins the high jumps. Dreams shake like a tree with curious wind on its face, it dances like leaves in love wind the...

Do you know that there’s a particular day in the year that is the most important? Are you aware that on this day, people spend a lot to celebrate it? For many reasons, people like you can easily slip into the idea that without enough food, roses, music and money, you...

There is a growing concern that there is poverty everywhere in the world, and especially in Africa. We have all heard from the media, non-profit development organizations, our neighbours, the Government, public and private organization how poor we are in Africa. But,...

Prikkle Educational Initiative (Prikkle Academy) has sown a seed of development in Mbagishi Community of Benue State, Nigeria. We have been able to identify the assets, strengths and potentials in this community. We did not just talk about the gifts and resources,...

Collaboration is one of the key themes on which Prikkle Academy runs her programs. We are convinced that innovation and creativity is encouraged when people of different ages, experience, strengths and talents share ideas to create sustainable social change. It is...

It’s no longer news that there many streets in urban communities of Nigeria doesn’t have electricity in weeks. This situation is even more appalling in rural communities where some of these villages don’t have an electric pole talk less of the hope of having...

If you knew that just ₦100 (half a $) can break the information gap for rural communities, wouldn’t that be exciting? When you hear the word ‘rural’, what readily comes to mind? You think about subsistence agriculture, poverty, lack of access to social infrastructures...

It will not cost any school a fortune to infuse creativity and innovation in the activities students engage in while in school. There is an urgent need to question the idea of the teacher giving all the knowledge and the students consuming it without questioning or...

A big gourd with a hole in the bottom cannot be filled – Maasai Proverb After an intensive 3 weeks of finding out the huge store of people’s capacities and drafting out the importance of the institutions in Mbagishi Community, a settlement in Tsar, Vandeikya Local...

When you look at Mbagishi community, what you generally see are the thatched houses, the untarred roads, no sight of electric poles, scanty hospital professionals and so on. The written hands of what we call ‘poverty’ are clearly visible in this rural community of...

Taking the first step in any activity is usually a big challenge. While you have an ideal vision and a solution to community problems, to get people to buy into the idea might be a hurdle. But when you eventually take the little step, you’ll find out that the activity...